A coroner has been investigating the death of a 43 year old British Airways ('BA') pilot on medical leave, who believed that he had been poisoned by repeated exposure during his career to contaminated aircraft cabin air.

At one time medical expense reimbursement plans (MERPs) were a very popular fringe benefit, particularly for small employers, and most particularly for small professional corporations maintained by healthcare providers. Under a MERP, a corporation could reimburse its employees (including...

The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department laid down an ambitious plan for changing the way Medicare pays healthcare providers, and officials hope the changes will spread throughout the healthcare system.

The House Finance Committee continued hearings on Gov. Kasich's budget proposal this week. House Bill 64, a nearly 3,000 page bill, includes details on the governor’s spending proposal for fiscal years 2016 and 2017.

On June 25, 2014, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) issued a special fraud alert entitled “Laboratory Payments to Referring Physicians.” The alert deals specifically with laboratories paying compensation to physicians and group practices for blood specimen collection, processing,...

On January 30, 2015, several healthcare organizations sent a group letter to CMS protesting the use of virtual credit cards by health plans to pay providers. In a virtual credit card payment (a nonstandard type of electronic funds transfer EFT), a health plan or its payment vendor issues single-use...

On 13 June 2014 the National Assembly issued Law No. 46/2014/QH11 ("Law 46") amending and supplementing some provisions of the Law on Health Insurance. Law 46 took effect on 1 January 2015. In order to provide implementing guidance to Law 46, on 15 November 2014 the Government issued...

Health systems attempting to fulfill the mandate of integrating hospitals and physicians may find themselves accused of going too far. Although the Affordable Care Act, shared savings, gainsharing and other alternative payment methodologies have made integration of physicians, hospitals and other...